Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 20:30 UTC (1:30pm PDT, 4:30pm EDT) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when available.
The agenda for the upcoming meeting will be published when available. In the meeting we plan to discuss mechanicjay's report on different entity types and the first draft of the bylaws, which was posted to janrinok's journal previously.
Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/Governance
Our community is encouraged to observe and participate, and is therefore invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is, after all, People!
(Score: 2) by kolie on Thursday August 24 2023, @07:37PM
Might be time to discuss and vote on a new entity formation pending the report on entity types discussion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2023, @09:41PM (1 child)
Can someone explain to us idiots what all this is about? Who wants to own the domain and why? It all seems so bullshit.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mechanicjay on Saturday August 26 2023, @03:47PM
Well, it is bullshit. Many Moons ago, two persons put up a couple thousand bucks to buy the domain name from the original owner who was holding it hostage, and spun up Soylent News PBC as a company to hold the assets of SoylentNews.org. Those owners are now looking to get out, but they're making it needlessly difficult, almost as if they're now holding it hostage themselves, but that's a nasty accusation.
Anyway, what's basically happening, in spirit, though the terms don't *quite* fit here, is that we're trying to orchestrate an employee buyout to prevent the site from going dark.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday August 26 2023, @12:13AM
Proposed agenda for 25 August 2023 governance committee meeting:
1) Previous Minutes
2) Proposed Agenda
3) Committee Member Reports on previously assigned tasks
3a) Update from Mechanicjay on corporate structures
3b) report from Jan on Bylaws
5) New Business
5a) Comments from the community.
6) Adjourn
Agenda as approved:
1) Previous Minutes
2) Proposed Agenda
3) Committee Member Reports on previously assigned tasks
3a) Update from Mechanicjay on corporate structures
3b) report from Jan on Bylaws
5) New Business
5a) Discussion about committe direction
5b)Comments from the community
6) Adjourn